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by betterlabs 15y ago
Great post and something that is necessary to make sure that the "lean movement" is not perceived as something brand new that was not known to any of us earlier. Eric and Steve have done a stellar stellar job of "teaching lean" and making i
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I don't quiet agree with that. I believe "lean" definitely is a "state of mind" and the truly lean entrepreneurs are lean irrespective of constraints and I have seen this first hand on several occasions. I know more than a handful founders
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Sad but I am not surprised. Its incremental value was always questionable and I never understood why they thought they could build a successful browser based on niche features that only a tiny segment of the online population would want. It
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How Flickr Deleting a User’s 4000 Pictures Led to the Creation of PicBackMan(picbackman.com)
1 points by betterlabs 16y ago|0 comments
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Rahul, awesome reply. Kudos to your team for a well executed product. I am curious to know if you are using Rapleaf to get social profiles or if you are doing it yourself (which is tough/only partially possible). If you are using Rapleaf, a
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Awesome point and I couldn't agree more. As usual your articulation of it is better than anything else I have read before.
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Right on. And I am looking forward to what you do next. Having said that though, what you have right now is a "nice to have" and it excites everyone for the soft value it adds. But I wonder if the current product can pass the Penny Gap. I k
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by betterlabs 16y ago
This is something you end up discussing every so often. But I think its not about the fact they have ugly interfaces or that they are successful inspite of the ugly interface. I think its about the fact that they were a certain way then the
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Couldn't agree more. I think Amazon really had tried to design based on the user experience at the center and not colors/how it looks/cool AJAX etc. A lot of times you see a big letter from Bezos on the homepage and I think its brilliant. A
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Awesome for the "single founder" part. I think its a myth that single founder companies are few and far between, and that its tough to make it happen alone. I don't disagree that being a single founder is tough, but I think there are founde
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Really? I think Google, Microsoft and a couple others like RapLeaf already have a ton of Facebook profile data already.
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by betterlabs 16y ago
+1 to that. I think that is the best explanation. Sometimes the best way to get a face-saving exit in the Valley is to be VC funded and by the right guys who make sure all their bets get some sort of an exit. I know of a similar one in the
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I don't think Wave as a product failed. I think it failed as a product Google imagined/wanted it to be. They expected Wave to replace the way we use email. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now, after the fact. The tech was cool and u
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Max is awesome and I love his attitude. But I just never ever understood Slide. And why Google would buy Slide is equally difficult to understand, if not more. Are they buying technology? Or users (on Facebook!)? Or revenues (most likely no
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I don't get it. Is the title an example of how TheFridge can be used?
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Ah, I think it would be a mistake for anyone to assume they are an expert unless they are in a field that has nothing left to be discovered (rare!). If you are in tech, then I think "Ancora Imparo" (I'm learning) - as referenced in an earli
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Not sure I agree. Its not about technology or familiarity. Video is not (yet) a comfortable medium of communication for most people. They won't be confident on video, and most likely will come off less perfect than they really are. I think
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I think most candidates who are good will find this to be way too much work to prove their point. They won't do it. Secondly, depending on the job a lot of people may get disqualified just because they seem lame on video, though they are st
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I know of a couple of entrepreneurs who made a good few mil by selling their startup and were looking to start a business as a lifestyle cashflow only business. When I asked him why, he said they did not want to dip into their savings for d
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Its indeed awesome for a company as large as Apple to keep things this way. I have several friends at Cisco and Oracle and the teams there are just bloated beyond belief. I think a lot of this flows top down and the management needs to get
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Looking at the set of investors who endorsed their vision, I think they probably have a lot more to come which may define why its more interesting beyond the mashups they have right now.
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Rapportive is awesome because its simple and easy to understand. Everyone gets it without any confusion. Would be interesting to see how they make money, though. Thats a toughie, especially considering the target market is Gmail users. Also
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Ask HN: What's better for email deliverability? Own Server/AuthSMTP/SendGrid?
2 points by betterlabs 16y ago|2 comments
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Like wives tend to want the best qualities of all their friends' husbands all rolled into theirs :)
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I agree. This is true outside of HN as well IF you look at the aggregate smartness/knowledge of experts and compare that aggregate to your smartness/knowledge. Its incorrect to do such a comparison. If you look at the experts whose smartnes
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by betterlabs 16y ago
As you have agreed to in the comments, there are already a few competitors in this space and some of them have been there for a long time. I like your pricing model but I am wondering if that alone would be enough to win against the competi
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by betterlabs 16y ago
Nice list and awesome looking sites. I wonder though - does anyone really visit these websites, discover the app and buy/install it?
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by betterlabs 16y ago
I think "how you do it" matters a lot in this case a lot and context/relationship/the particular requirement all play a big role. Basically you are not just casually saying "pay me whatever you like". The customer already trusts you, values
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by betterlabs 16y ago
This is very well articulated. I have definitely tried this before and it works like a charm. However, you do have to be careful about who you try this with though. Long term satisfied customers, customers in urgent deadlines and ones who a
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Why Persistent Search is Important(blog.betterlabs.net)
1 points by betterlabs 17y ago|0 comments

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